linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] XFS TESTS: Fix 252 Failure: Relax fiemap filter

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:17:12 -0700
From:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] XFS TESTS: Fix 252 Failure: Relax fiemap filter

On 06/27/2011 09:59 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:27:25PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
> I seriously dislike conditional parameter passing in shell scripts
> at the best of times, but for filter functions I really think it is
> the wrong thing to do. It significantly obfuscates the working of
> the function for no really good reason.
>
> Just write a new filter function, and factor out the common parts of
> them if the amount of code duplication is sufficient to make it
> desirable to do so.
>

Ok, it doesn't look like a lot of code, I can separate them into their
own functions.

>> +	md5sum $testfile | cut -d ' ' -f1
>
> Why cut out the file name? It's not like it changes at all....
>

Oh, it looked like there's a pid attached to the file name, so I thought 
I should remove that from the output

Allison Henderson


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